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Kim Gordon was born on 28 April 1953 in Rochester, New York, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018), I'm Not There (2007) and Last Days (2005). She has been married to Thurston Moore since 9 June 1984. They have one child.- Actress
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Joan Jett rose to fame in the 1970s all-girl rock band The Runaways. Her cover of "I Love Rock and Roll" was a number one hit in 1982; "Crimson and Clover" was another hit for her. Jett has appeared as Columbia in the Broadway production of "The Rocky Horror Show".- Actress
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Aimee Mann is a Grammy- and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter. She has released 9 albums including Bachelor No. 2, @#%&*! Smilers, Lost in Space, and Mental Illness in January 2017. Her work includes the soundtrack from the critically acclaimed film Magnolia. "Save Me" was later nominated for an Academy Award. Earlier in her musical life, Mann fronted the band 'Til Tuesday, releasing three albums. She has made memorable cameo appearances in films such as The Big Lebowski and television show such as IFC's Portlandia and The Daily Show to name a few.- Actress
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Kim Deal and her twin sister, Kelley Deal, grew up in Dayton, Ohio. When they were teenagers, they formed their own folk-rock duo, The Breeders, playing at local truck stops. In 1986, Kim moved to Boston with her husband, John Murphy. She saw an ad in The Boston Phoenix, looking for a bassist into Peter Paul & Mary and Hüsker Dü. She was the only one who auditioned for this band, who later became one of the most influential alternative rock bands in America, The Pixies. In the seven odd years "The Pixies" were together, they released five albums, with Kim playing bass and singing back-up vocals.
In 1988, Kim try reviving her childhood band. She and her friend, Tanya Donelly (of Throwing Muses and Belly) recorded some demos together with David Lovering (Pixies drummer) and David Narcizo (Throwing Muses drummer). They later recruited Josephine Wiggs (British bassist for "Perfect Disaster", who once opened for Pixies) and Slit drummer Britt Walford. With their collective bands still together, The Breeders recorded their debut album, "Pod", in 1990. Kelley Deal was supposed to play guitar for them, but she couldn't get the time off work to record. "The Pixies" broke up in 1993, leaving Kim with her "Breeders". Kelley replaced Tanya as lead guitarist, and The Breeders went on to record their second album, "Last Splash", released that year. In 1994, The Breeders, now with drummer Jim McPherson, played "Lollapolooza".
1995 was a rough year for the band. Josephine unofficially quit to be with her girlfriend and Kelley was sent to rehab for her heroin addiction, leaving Kim and Jim, by themselves. While all this was going on, the two formed a side project, Tammy and the Amps, later reduced to The Amps. With a new guitarist and bassist, they released one album, in 1995, titled "Pacer". The Amps disbanded in 1997. Kim and Kelley tried getting The Breeders back together. They recorded demos with them playing all the instruments.
In 2000, The Breeders officially reformed with a new line up: Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Richard Presley Jr. on lead guitar, Mando Lopez on bass, and Jose Mendles on drums. The new Breeders released the wonderfully lo-fi "Title TK" in 2002. Kim is now back with the Pixies for a very successful reunion tour. It has been rumored The Pixies will release a new album. But it is confirmed The Breeders will be back in the recording studio.- Additional Crew
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Jackie Fox was born as Jackie Fuchs on December 20, 1959 in Los Angeles, California. A merit scholar who was planning to study mathematics at UCLA, Jackie was discovered dancing at the famous Starwood nightclub by club owner and disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer, who in turn introduced her to music producer and manager Kim Fowley. Fox auditioned for a spot as a bass player for the legendary all-female rock group the Runaways and subsequently joined the band in 1976. She was only 16 years old at the time. Jackie played bass on three albums and left the band at age 17 following their hugely successful tour of Japan in June, 1977. After leaving the Runaways Fox went on to work as a modeling agent, a records promotions executive, and as a promoter of self-help writer and professional speaker Tony Robbins' firewalking seminars. Jackie has a B.A. in Lingustics and Italian from UCLA, where she graduated summa cum laude. Moreover, Fox also has a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. (One of her classmates at Harvard Law School was Barack Obama.) She speaks French, Greek, Italian, and Spanish. In 1994 Fox participated in a reunion concert for the Runaways with lead singer Cherie Currie and drummer Sandy West. Jackie co-produced and appears as an interview subject in the 2004 documentary "Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways;" this movie was directed by Victory Tischler-Blue, who replaced Fox as the bassist for the Runaways after she left the group. Jackie Fox now works as an entertainment attorney in film and television on the West Coast.The Runaways- Actress
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Chrissie Hynde was born on 7 September 1951 in Akron, Ohio, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Happy Feet (2006), Stealth (2005) and The Living Daylights (1987). She was previously married to Lucho Brieva and Jim Kerr.- Actress
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Tina Weymouth was born on 22 November 1950 in Coronado, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Virtuosity (1995), Free Guy (2021) and Finch (2021). She has been married to Chris Frantz since 18 June 1977. They have two children.Talking Heads- Actress
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Louise Post was born on 7 December 1966 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Still Life (2006), Touch (1997) and Totally Confused (1998).Veruca Salt- Actress
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Louise Wener was born on 30 July 1967 in Gants Hill, Ilford, Essex, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Trainspotting (1996), Get Real (1998) and Husk.- Actress
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Donita Sparks was born on 8 April 1963 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Tank Girl (1995), Serial Mom (1994) and Natural Born Killers (1994).L7- Music Department
-Miriam Pilette is a musician from Montreal (province of Quebec, Canada), notably guitarist in singer-songwriter Émile Bilodeau's band. She has accompanied Bilodeau on the FEQ 2022, two European tours, several television performances, opening for the Cowboys Fringants at the Bell Centre, and various venues and festivals across Quebec. On stage for many years, she has played bass and guitar in a wide variety of projects, from the jazz-rock quartet Gisèle to rock, pop and country bands. In addition to being part of the houseband for the 2023 Fête Nationale show on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, she taught guitar for several years and published a guitar method in 2022. In 2023, she launched Camping Lagon, her singer-songwriter project, and in 2024, she will be the guitarist on the musical Waitress presented in Montreal and Quebec City.- Nashville based Paula Jo Taylor is an acclaimed lead guitar player who performs with her daughter Amanda and their Mama Tried Band. She was featured in Guitar World Magazine as their pick for top 10 female guitarist and performed live at their 2019 summer NAMM show booth in Nashville. A video of Paula Jo playing guitar at the 2017 summer NAMM has gone viral on the Internet.
Nikki Sixx, bass player for Motley Crue, coined her "Viral Granny Guitarist" and featured her on his L.A. radio station Sixx Sense. The video garnered over 6 million views and still climbing. It has been shared by Guitar World Magazine, Guitar Player Magazine, Society of Rock, NAMM and hundreds of iHeart Radio Stations across the country. It broadcast on television stations nationwide as well as the Glenn Beck show.
Articles have been written about her in Society of Rock and many others.
From the age of seven, Paula Jo began performing with her dad, Joe Taylor's live weekly radio show. She has also performed large concert venues opening for legends such as Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, George Jones, Hank Williams Jr. and numerous acts.
She co-hosted a television variety show with her father, Joe Taylor, broadcast weekly on PBS. Paula Jo also writes comedy songs cut by major label artists and comedy DJ's Bob and Tom, among others.
She has played guitar behind Jeannie C. Riley, Tanya Tucker, Blake Shelton and others and has performed with Cledus T. Judd on a TV pilot show for Comedy Central as well as the Warner Brothers Showcase stage in Nashville during CMA Fest. - Actress
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Born and raised in Los Angeles, and a SAG actress since she was 12 years old, Siouxsie is best known as the guitarist for Dead Sara, a rock band started by herself and friend Emily Armstrong when Siouxsie was age 15 and Emily age 16.
Since then, Dead Sara has released an EP, released their first self-titled album "Dead Sara" in 2012 and their second album "Pleasure To Meet You" in 2015, had a hit record "Weatherman", and opened for bands such as Bush, The Used, Chevelle, The Offspring, and MUSE as well as headlined their own shows.
Siouxsie and Emily also act in their recent music video "Lemon Scent".- Stunts
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Debby Porter was born in Hollywood, California, the daughter of a professional race car driver, who also owned his own auto-body shop, building custom cars. She was influenced at an early age by many celebrities associated with her father's profession, including James Dean and Steve McQueen. In high school, Debby was enrolled in a program for mentally-gifted minors who had an I.Q. of over 140. She received many awards for her artistic abilities before continuing on to Golden West College, where she majored in Theater Arts. Her singing career began to flourish while performing in many of the college's productions. Debby returned to Hollywood to concentrate on her acting and singing career. Her entertainment career quickly began to take off. She was introduced to many music and movie producers, directors, and stunt coordinators. Surprisingly, it was a stunt coordinator that gave Debby her first break, where she did stunt work for the movie, North Dallas Forty (1979). She was then chosen to work permanently on the television show The Fall Guy (1981), as a stunt double for Heather Thomas. This, in turn, led to more work on the shows T.J. Hooker (1982), as Heather Locklear's stunt double and stunt work on Knight Rider (1982) and The Dukes of Hazzard (1979). While working on Duke's, she developed a life-long friendship with John Schneider. During her career as a stunt woman, she has doubled such stars as: Glenn Close, Beverly D'Angelo, Suzanne Somers, Barbara Eden and Cassandra Peterson (aka "Elvira"). Stunt work paved the way to many acting roles in feature films and episodic television, as well as national commercials for companies, such as Citibank. It was during this time that Debby continued perfecting her craft as a vocalist. She began studying with vocal coach Mark Forest and, most recently, Ron Anderson. Although her acting and stunt career were doing well, her passion was in singing country music. For years, she has been doing background vocal work for many country-rock and pop acts in the L.A. music scene. She has performed in Las Vegas for Jerry Lewis' Annual Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, won an award for songwriting, performed an original composition on national television and placed an original song in a recent movie. Debby currently sings, fronting her own Country-Rock band, "Debby Porter the RE-porters", and maintains her gospel background in her Blues/R&B band, "TrainWreck". She remains an in-demand session singer and vocal arranger. She loves writing her own material and collaborating with other writers including country artist, John Schneider, who appears on Debby's demo tape, with her singing "Please Be Now".- Actress
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Actress/singer/songwriter Kathleen LaGue has had quite a journey prior to starring in Razortooth (2007). The third of six children born into an artistic and musically enriched Midwestern family, Kathleen was raised modestly in a two-bedroom house where creativity and self-expression, often in the form of singing and dancing, were fostered. She graduated with honors from Tonganoxie High School, a small town high school on the outskirts of Kansas City, Kansas.
Though her initial passion and inspiration lie in acting and singing in the theatre, she was given--and took--the opportunity to attend college on an art scholarship, and graduated from Baker University cum laude in Art and Psychology before relocating to New York City to pursue her dreams. Thriving on the energy of the big city, she joined a rock band, taught aerobics, and modeled on 7th Avenue for Calvin Klein, Levis and Ferragamo while studying voice and acting in commercials. Her professional singing career began with singing standards and Top-40 in wedding bands and belting Broadway tunes on cruise ships. She toured internationally with Portuguese star Fernando Pereira in a three-girl trio known as "The New York Singers," playing sold-out arenas in Portugal, Brazil and Atlantic City.
LaGue moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she honed her songwriting and guitar-playing skills with some of the most gifted musicians in the country. The collective talents of Tom Bukovac (Sheryl Crow, Faith Hill, Keith Urban), Will Rambeaux (Faith Hill, Shari Austin) and Shawn Fichter (Trisha Yearwood, Peter Frampton, John Fogerty) helped forge Kathleen's rock and pop roots into her first self-penned and -produced CD, the eponymous "Kathleen LaGue". Released independently on her own label, Lioness Records, it was an immediate success, with over 250,000 internet downloads. "I couldn't have made that record without the community of incredible songwriters and musicians in Nashville", she said. In support of her album, Kathleen toured the country, opening for the likes of Counting Crows, Live, Pete Yorn, Chris Whitley, John Hiatt, Patty Griffin and others. The USO then gave her the opportunity to perform before US troops stationed overseas. She and her band toured military bases in Greenland, Japan, Korea, Guam and remote islands in the South Pacific.
Kathleen's career focus shifted towards acting when she was cast in a lead role in a PAX television pilot that was shooting in Nashville. Later, she was spotted by a CBS Senior VP of Casting in a Nicoderm CQ national commercial and was called in to audition for several series regular roles prior to relocating to L.A. in 2002. While she has emerged as a successful voice-over actor, leading her own loop group, she continues to be cast in feature films, having roles in many recent films: Universal's American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005) in which she plays a feisty receptionist, "The Eye" (2008) playing a nurse, and a starring role as Sheriff Ruth Gainey-Coates," the strong female lead in the horror feature "Razortooth," a Lionsgate film released in June 2009.
Returning to her singing career in 2010, LaGue performs with the Angel City Big Band as a lead singer, and has formed an all girl singing trio called "Fever" while continuing to write songs for her next studio album.- Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Bonnie double majored in theater and dance and studied opera at the University of Akron, Ohio.
She has worked with The Wailers, Steel Pulse, Teddy Riley, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, Dave Stewart, Diana King, Clayton Bruce Ost, Steve Holley, Larry Mitchell, Paul Pesco, Richie Cannata, Dean Johnson, Bobby Nathan, D.L. Byron and has shared the bill with such artists as; The Band, Burning Spear, Big Mountain, The Guess Who, Andy Summers from The Police and more.
In 1993, the release of album; "The Best of All Possible Worlds" on Gekko Rekkords (USA) and the single "I don't Care" on Sonic Sounds (Kingston, Jamaica) brought much attention in the West Indies, home and abroad. The album is "Roots rock reggae" and includes the Grateful Dead cover, "Row Jimmy". Co-writer/Producer, Perry Winston (Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce Knowles, Madonna, Prince, Erica Badyu, Regina Belle, Will Downing and more) mastered, engineered, and produced the album, programmed the drums, keyboards and performed guitar, horn and vocals. The album also features the horn and vocal master, Kevin B from Steel Pulse. - Actress
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is an American guitarist. Best known for her work with Iron Maiden all-female tribute band The Iron Maidens, her career has included performing with several rock ensembles such as the band Femme Fatale and the LA Kiss musical backing group. In June 2014, she replaced Orianthi in the band of American hard rock musician Alice Cooper. She was also ranked #1 on the list of '10 Female Guitar Players You Should Know' published by Guitar World.She comes from a long line of classical musicians - one of her ancestors on her father's side of the family is the Austrian composer Johann Strauss. In June 2014, it was announced that Nita would replace Orianthi as Alice Cooper's touring guitarist for the 2014 tour dates, a role she continues currently.
Strauss is featured as the main guitarist on seven songs in Docker's Guild album called The Heisenberg Diaries - Book A: Sounds of Future Past, released on January 21, 2016. In 2018, Strauss started to make appearances on WWE shows. On April 8, she appeared at WrestleMania 34, playing guitar in a live performance of Shinsuke Nakamura's entrance theme. On October 28, Strauss performed with Lzzy Hale at WWE Evolution.- Actress
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Melissa Auf der Maur was born in Montreal, Canada to Linda Gaboriau, a DJ, and Nick Auf der Maur, a rock journalist. She has described her father as being "absent" in her life. She attended F.A.C.E., a performing arts school in Montreal. At school, she was active in choir, piano and trumpet before having dream about the band, Kyuss, that inspired her to learn how to play the bass. She joined a band called Tinker and was friends with Billy Corgan and, when Hole's bassist Kristen Pfaff died of a heroin overdose in June 1994, Billy suggested she take over her position. She left Hole in October 1999 for the The Smashing Pumpkins. She now works on photography, one of her first loves.- Actress
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Singer, songwriter and bassist Michael Steele was born on June 2, 1955 in Pasadena, California and grew up in suburban Newport Beach. Steele was briefly in the 70's all-girl rock group, The Runaways, as both the lead singer and bass player, but got kicked out for being too old. She played in almost fourteen bands prior to joining The Bangles in 1983 (she replaced original bassist Annette Zilinskas). After The Bangles split up in 1989, Michael wrote songs and recorded demos for a possible solo album that sadly never materialized. In 1993, Steele fronted the band "Crash Wisdom", which subsequently broke up in late 1994. She left Los Angeles and moved to Northern California to concentrate on painting. In 1996, Michael became the bass player for the band Eyesore; this gig only lasted for four months. Steele has done some session work for Jan Krist, 'Kings X' guitarist Ty Tabor and Eliza. Moreover, Michael did a guest stint in fellow The Bangles band member Victoria Peterson's group, the Continental Drifters, in which she filled in for primary bassist Mark Walton. On November 21, 1998, Steele made a public appearance singing lead vocals on two songs at a Sandy Denny tribute show at St. Ann's Church in New York City. She subsequently performed on stage with the Continental Drifters at Acme Underground in New York City on November 23, 1998. In 1999, she was the last member of The Bangles to rejoin the group. In 2005, Michael Steele left The Bangles.- Tracy Wright was born on 7 December 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for Trigger (2010), Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and Blindness (2008). She was married to Don McKellar. She died on 22 June 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.